The 2019 'Watchmen', much like 'The Last Jedi', got a certain segment of fans very, very angry but taking brave risks, and questioning assumptions, is what great art is supposed to do.
There's probably no 'Star Wars' topic that's caused more angry fan discourse than Johnson's 'The Last Jedi' and these are bound to make the Gina Carano controversy look like nothing.
Whatever form the film takes, the idea of Daniel Craig's private eye parachuting into another case, in another part of the country, with another eccentric wealthy family, has virtually unlimited potential for future films.
Fandom, clearly, is broken, in a lot of key ways and it really needs to get back to loving the movies, and getting joy out of them, and not using them as a platform for irrational hostility.